A Digital Home For The Holidays By Matthew Byrd • December 15th, 2016 “What I wanted was a place where I could bask in the spirit of the season without feeling like a complete outsider.”
Are Games Really Better With Friends? By Matt Sayer • December 13th, 2016 Watching a bad movie with good friends can be a blast, but it doesn’t make the movie any less awful. Shouldn’t the same rule apply to games?
Pokémon Red and Blue Reflect Your Worldview As a Kid By Khee Hoon Chan • December 13th, 2016 “Minor but illogical details, like how my poor mum couldn’t afford a bed while I had an entire room to myself, were inconsequential to my eight-year-old self.”
The Year of the Secondary Character By David Shimomura • December 12th, 2016 “Secondary characters have always been around, but 2016 feels like the year that they exceeded their “secondary” status in important and necessary ways.”
The Appeal of Simplicity By Sam Desatoff • December 8th, 2016 “I have a problem, and it involves board games: I have too many of them.”
Spilled Ink Final Fantasy XV Isn’t a Road Trip; It’s a Day Spent Running Errands for the Folks. By Austin Price • December 7th, 2016 “Unlike the best of road trips, in FFXV, there is no urgency to your motions, no sense of propulsion driving you forward.”
List-o-Mania, November 2016 By Team Unwinnable • December 7th, 2016 Every month, Team Unwinnable puts together short lists of recommended music, books and games.
Watch Dogs 2: It’s Just a Game, Right? By Matt Sayer • December 6th, 2016 Watch Dogs 2 has an identity crisis. One part game, one part warning for the future, it sends a confused message that suffers for its interactivity.
It’s Time to Talk About Videogame Length and Prices By Khee Hoon Chan • December 6th, 2016 “Some of my favorite games are also some of the shortest in length and content, but they are every bit as worthwhile as titles like The Witcher 3 and Skyrim.”
Gwent is the Boxing of Card Games By David Shimomura • December 5th, 2016 “In a funny way, Gwent has more in common with boxing than it does with card games.”
